You’ve heard the repeated warnings: "Backup!" You know you should do it. But are you? Are you backing up your computer’s data? And if you are backing up your data, is your backup solution reliable? Here are four steps you can take to provide yourself with a comprehensive backup solution, along with a few recommendations of products that I’ve been using. Using these tools together should also provide you with some redundancy, so that you can have piece of mind that you’re not putting all of your eggs in one basket.
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Adobe AIR is a lightweight, multi-OS (Windows, Mac, Linux) platform for running rich internet applications (RIAs) on your desktop. While some have used it to simply recreate their webpage outside of the browser, most AIR apps are unique applications in their own right, often bringing new functionality that is not present in their browser counterparts. Adobe AIR caught on quickly with developers, and while it is not as outwardly robust as Silverlight or JavaFX, it does what is needed to bring cloud computing one step closer to the mainstream. There are a multitude of Adobe AIR applications floating about the web now — some good, some… not so much, but more than enough are of the of the former classification to make it worth your time to click the download link and install it. To help you get started, or to increase your current AIR arsenal, I’ve compiled a quick list of the top five Adobe AIR applications I can’t live with out:
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Tweak Firefox for a Netbook – With the smaller screen real estate on netbooks, there are some tweaks you can make to Firefox to maximize your viewing area.
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Mint.com, a service that describes itself as the “best (free) way to manage your money”, announced today by press release, blog and direct email to its userbase, that it is to be acquired by Intuit for $170 million by the end of this year. Mint has garnered over 1.5 million users, over the past two years and is commonly known to be easy to use, intuitive, and an all around great way to get a clear snapshot of your finances; including tips on how to reduce your debt, budget better, and reach your financial goals. They have been, in some ways, in direct competition with the Intuit Quicken applications, especially as Intuit has recently been pushing itself more and more into the online space (perhaps inspired by Mint’s success?). Intuit even created its own free online offering, Quicken Online, which is also quite easy to use, though it lacks some of Mint’s more advanced features.
The big question here is what will become of the two applications?
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